When showrunner Sam Esmail listened to the conversations in Eli Horowitz and Micah Bloomberg’s popular radio-play style podcast “Homecoming,” there was a voyeuristic aspect to the mystery that reminded him of his favorite psychological thrillers from film history.“Something that was great in the podcast is that it always constantly felt like you were eavesdropping on their conversations,” Esmail said when he was on IndieWire’s Filmmaker Toolkit podcast.
“What Eli and Micah did so brilliantly was that all the conversations felt like they were taped [phone conversations], or they felt like they were from the tape recorder, so I really wanted to play with that visually.”More than half of Esmail’s series, like the podcast, takes place in the Homecoming Transitional Support Center, a live-in facility that supposedly helps soldiers transition to civilian life.
Run by a corporation with questionable but not readily apparent motivations, each episode pulls back
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